Early Paris Dunns?

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Mike Hage
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Early Paris Dunns?

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Maybe Mike can help with this?
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I would like to put one of these together since I already made a tail and got decals from Mike. I have a tower and a prop and a generator. The casting that the motor sits on is broken and welded poorly. I have these 2 other frames but they are slightly different. The vane angle iron mounts to the side and there is only one instead of 2.
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any wisdom, history, pictures?
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Not really certain I can help. I have this Model 106. Happy to take further photos if you feel it would be helpful. Michael :-)
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The early PD castings used 2 lengths of 3/4" angle iron to support the vane. The first one I show is the vertical mount, second is horizontal like yours. That 2nd version was a bad design...cantilevered with no bending support. The 3rd cast iron version supported a single 1"angle angle iron and it was used with the tail vanes like yours and mmfly4fun's. The later vanes used straight angle iron until the stamped steel frame models came out. If one of your spares are the 3rd version, you're in like Flint. You just need to bend a 1" angle iron and try not to let it buckle.
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Thanks Mike,
I think it's like the 106 except with 2 horizontal angles. I'll have to dig them out of the shed and take some better photos. But not today it is minus 38 with a horrible wind. Just bloody awful! I think I'll hide in the basement and reletter a windmill vane.
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So Mike what about that wierd tail on that one you brought to Temple on the weekend I've never seen one like that?
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You mean the Air Electric Streamliner? Air Electric had some pretty unique designs for the time. More info on that one here. https://www.vintagewindmillforum.com/vi ... f=42&t=825
The Air Electric Powerline model was pretty interesting too, an equally rare machine. The chief engineer was a guy named Basil Miller. He’s also responsible for the WinPower downwind design.
I see it’s warming up to -13 in Craven, SK today. Low of -31 tomorrow. That’s F, I can pull out the slide rule if you need that translated.
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It's the one on the ground beside the trailer on the Texas show picture in the next topic. Only minus 26 Celsius here today but the wind howled made it feel like minus 40 any uncovered skin freezes in minutes. And still I'm out there digging windmill parts out of the snowbank la la la completely nuts!
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Oh that one...that’s an early Parris Dunn, possibly pre Parris and just a Dunn. It’s casting is first mount I posted above. The tail is incorrectly mounted on mine. The upper angle iron should run along the top of the vane, lower one diagonal. Tower was shorter on those models. Most of the tails that shape had Sentinel on them. Mine advertised for a company in Cincinnati, says Ace Govermatic on it. Parts are all original, including prop and it still works.
Don’t know how you can survive it such cold. I’ve experienced-15 and it hurt to breathe...but -40? Ya know the interesting thing about-40?...Same temp C or F.
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Dug mine out of the shed
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I did NOT paint the Stewort warner ha ha!
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Nice collection! I haven't seen that PD tail and angle iron variant before, 2nd pic. The frame looks like early PD but tails look like model 36 Wincharger. Parmak also had a tail that shape. Maybe someone's creation? If so they went to a lot of trouble to bend the angle iron. Sometimes wind chargers sold by retailers had unique features. Are the Whirl Power tail graphics original?
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